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Other Kelvin Timeline ships, such as the T'laru and D4X, to the Lobi store as have been done with the Intel Dreadnought Cruiser? I'd really like the T'laru, but it's quite a bit more expensive than I can afford, and I probably wont be able to until it drops into the sub 300m range... lol donations welcome @NekoFury86

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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    There is absolutely no chance of it happening. Once a ship is designated as a Lockbox ship, C-Store ship, or Lobi Store ship, then it is permanently stuck there. If Cryptic releases Tier 7 ships, then there is the chance of it happening since the Jem'Hadar Heavy Escort Carrier and Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrier switched places in their transition from a Tier 5 ship to a Tier 6 ship.
  • nekofury86nekofury86 Member Posts: 181 Arc User
    starkaos wrote: »
    There is absolutely no chance of it happening. Once a ship is designated as a Lockbox ship, C-Store ship, or Lobi Store ship, then it is permanently stuck there. If Cryptic releases Tier 7 ships, then there is the chance of it happening since the Jem'Hadar Heavy Escort Carrier and Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrier switched places in their transition from a Tier 5 ship to a Tier 6 ship.

    How do you figure? There are a number of lockbox ships that are also bought with Lobi. Kelvin Timeline Dreadnought Cruiser, Xindi Aquatic Narcine Dreadnought Carrier, Sphere Builder Edoulg Science Vessel to name a few. The Kelvin Timeline Dreadnought Cruiser and the Jem Hadar Heavy Escort Carrier both were not available as lobi ships until after they had been in lockboxes for a couple weeks... just sayin'.
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    nekofury86 wrote: »
    starkaos wrote: »
    There is absolutely no chance of it happening. Once a ship is designated as a Lockbox ship, C-Store ship, or Lobi Store ship, then it is permanently stuck there. If Cryptic releases Tier 7 ships, then there is the chance of it happening since the Jem'Hadar Heavy Escort Carrier and Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrier switched places in their transition from a Tier 5 ship to a Tier 6 ship.

    How do you figure? There are a number of lockbox ships that are also bought with Lobi. Kelvin Timeline Dreadnought Cruiser, Xindi Aquatic Narcine Dreadnought Carrier, Sphere Builder Edoulg Science Vessel to name a few. The Kelvin Timeline Dreadnought Cruiser and the Jem Hadar Heavy Escort Carrier both were not available as lobi ships until after they had been in lockboxes for a couple weeks... just sayin'.

    There are no Lockbox ships that can be bought with Lobi. Once a Lockbox is released, they create at least one Lockbox ship and at least one Lobi Store ship. The Kelvin Timeline Dreadnought Cruiser was always a Lobi Store ship and the Jem'Hadar Heavy Escort Carrier was originally available as a lockbox ship when it was Tier 5, but is now available as a Tier 6 Lobi Store ship.

    The Narcine Dreadnought Carrier has only been available in a lockbox while the Edoulg Science Vessel is only available through the Lobi Store. Cryptic has never changed a Lockbox ship into a Lobi Store Ship.
  • necreliosis#4763 necreliosis Member Posts: 112 Arc User
    It's not likely to ever see the T'Laru as a Lobi ship. This is why I stocked up on about 500 Kelvin Timeline lockboxes. Every couple of days I open one, eventually I'll get that ship, I might be an old man by then though :) . It might show up in Infinity Lock boxes at some point though.
  • soulxsinosoulxsino Member Posts: 30 Arc User
    IMO you should be happy its a lockbox ship. at least it has a chance of dropping in price with the infinity box. I do not believe lobi ships drop in prices to the same extent
  • nekofury86nekofury86 Member Posts: 181 Arc User
    soulxsino wrote: »
    IMO you should be happy its a lockbox ship. at least it has a chance of dropping in price with the infinity box. I do not believe lobi ships drop in prices to the same extent

    I don't see your point. 10 keys average 50 Lobi. 900 Lobi = 1 T6 ship. 1 T6 Lobi Ship = roughly 250-300 million EC. Current T'laru price 500-600 million EC. 10 Keys = roughly 56 million x 18 (180 keys) 1,026,000,000 EC. Sure you might be able to pull it off for less, but i see plenty reason to desire a Lobi version. Almost every single 900 (T6) Lobi ship is worth around the 275 mill EC while nearly every T6 LockBox ship is worth around 400-600 million. For those of use who just can't manage to get that much EC, we desire lower prices. So no, I am not happy that an awesome desirable ship for my favorite faction is a lockbox ship because I simply can't afford it, and I probably never will because, without spending real cash, I have no idea how to make a fast 300 million. And I've been buying and selling keys all night, only made 4 million.... 2.5 months to go, hope it doesn't hit 750 million by then.
  • captainkoltarcaptainkoltar Member Posts: 895 Arc User
    edited November 2016
    When the T'laru goes into the Infinity lockbox (which will happen at the end of the Sphere lockbox run), the price will drop dramatically since the T6 ship pack in the Infinity box lets you obtain any previous lockbox ship you want.

    Since this doesn't happen with Lobi ships, their prices do not drop in the same way.

    PS: Could you in future write the full title of your thread into the subject? It's much more useful for people to be able to find threads relevant to them.
  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,918 Arc User
    edited November 2016
    nekofury86 wrote: »
    soulxsino wrote: »
    IMO you should be happy its a lockbox ship. at least it has a chance of dropping in price with the infinity box. I do not believe lobi ships drop in prices to the same extent

    I don't see your point. 10 keys average 50 Lobi. 900 Lobi = 1 T6 ship. 1 T6 Lobi Ship = roughly 250-300 million EC. Current T'laru price 500-600 million EC. 10 Keys = roughly 56 million x 18 (180 keys) 1,026,000,000 EC. Sure you might be able to pull it off for less, but i see plenty reason to desire a Lobi version. Almost every single 900 (T6) Lobi ship is worth around the 275 mill EC while nearly every T6 LockBox ship is worth around 400-600 million. For those of use who just can't manage to get that much EC, we desire lower prices. So no, I am not happy that an awesome desirable ship for my favorite faction is a lockbox ship because I simply can't afford it, and I probably never will because, without spending real cash, I have no idea how to make a fast 300 million. And I've been buying and selling keys all night, only made 4 million.... 2.5 months to go, hope it doesn't hit 750 million by then.

    The problem is, there are a lot of players that paid well above 600M for it already, the T'Laru in the early days of release was pushing the 900M-1 Billion Mark.

    What you're asking is not fair to those players that spent heavily to get the ship up to this point. How do all those players feel when they paid the current price and all the sudden Cryptic just makes it available for Lobi? I understand your frustration, really.. I do, but what you're asking is never going to happen. All you're asking for is that they make things fair for you by making it unfair for others.

    I'm not trying to be unsympathetic, simply stating why what you want is extremely unlikely to ever happen.
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  • nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    When the Kelvin ships are added to the infinity boxes their price will plummet. The people who paid a ton for one already paid a premium for immediate access.

    I paid about $70 real money buying and exchanging keys so I could get my Tal Shiar Adapted Destroyer when I came back to the game last year. Same with my Narcine. I'm not running around screaming "giveses me the refundz!" because you can pick those up for around $25 now. It was worth it to me back then, or I wouldn't have done it.

    (...and I already know I'm gonna have to pay full pop again for their T6 versions. Annoying, but I enjoy them. They're the ships that make me want to play the game...)
  • nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    I'll put my T6 connie up for sale after the next chance at getting a sheshar :). If I get it from a box, great, if I don't I sell the connie and get it from someone else's box while the Sheshar's price is more manageable. ANd then that money can go to getting T6's of the T5 grand prize ships I already fly.
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